Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese Auktion
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Asian dishes such as Thai curry, rich roasted pork belly, and artisanal blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the visionary Ernst Loosen, the 'Urziger Wurzgarten' Riesling Spatlese Auktion represents the pinnacle of Mosel winemaking. The vineyard itself, whose name translates to the 'spice garden of Urzig,' is a geological marvel. Unlike the blue slate that dominates the region, the Wurzgarten is blessed with vibrant red volcanic soil and slate, which infuses the 100% Riesling grapes with an exotic, fiery personality rich in tropical fruits, ginger, and wild herbal spices. The 'Auktion' designation indicates a highly exclusive, limited-production bottling sourced from the estate's oldest ungrafted vines. These rare parcels are fermented with indigenous yeasts in traditional large oak Fuder casks, creating a masterpiece of tension, sweetness, and electric acidity that is sold exclusively at the annual VDP Mosel wine auctions.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Dr. Loosen stands as one of the preeminent global ambassadors of Germany's Mittelmosel. Under family ownership for more than two centuries, the estate experienced an epochal renaissance after Ernst 'Erni' Loosen assumed leadership in 1988. Loosen immediately implemented draconian yield restrictions, prohibited chemical fertilizers, and embraced spontaneous fermentations in neutral oak Fuder casks, frequently practicing extended lees contact. The domaine's strength rests in its holdings of ancient, ungrafted vines—many over a century old—clinging to perilous, south-facing slate amphitheaters. These steep slopes span blue Devonian slate in the Wehlener Sonnenuhr, red volcanic-slate colluvium in the Ürziger Würzgarten, and heat-retaining cliffs in the Erdener Prälat. Dr. Loosen is renowned both for crystalline, classically delicate Prädikat expressions defined by buoyant acidity and low alcohol, and for benchmark dry Grosses Gewächs bottlings that celebrate age-worthy, mineral-driven tension.
🍇 Grapes
100% Riesling